Mary's Nine Months

by Virginia M. Kimball, S.T.D.

Great Lent is a pregnancy
(mourning menses gone),
body spilling nausea
with awe for a growing
Unknown.

As body balance changes,
fasting the only survival ...
budding each day, each week;
and longing  for new life's
arrival.

Fast beats pulse beneath the heart,
probing womb's alienation,
Mary's patient waiting
until a surge of life nudges
reconciliation.

"Reject not your mother's teaching," (Prov 1:9)
for she walked a mysterious journey
of gestation, month by month, until
the glory of a Child ... even to Pascha's
glory.